From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, james.l.morris@oracle.com,
serge@hallyn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Joey Lee <jlee@suse.de>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mricon@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 17:23:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10137.1432225434@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150520154755.GE126473@ubuntu-hedt>
Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> wrote:
> > Relying on UEFI presents three problems, though: (1) the system admin has to
> > manually, as far as I'm aware, inform the BIOS; (2) the UEFI storage is
> > limited; and (3) not all systems have UEFI.
>
> Yeah, that doesn't really sound like a good solution. Not all users are
> sys admins.
Yeah. We don't really want to recommend they go meddling lest they brick
their machine by triggering a bug in their BIOS. Not that there *are* any
buggy BIOSes of course;-)
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-21 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-19 20:02 [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 20:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 20:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 22:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 22:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 23:30 ` Julian Calaby
2015-05-19 23:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20 0:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-20 0:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 22:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 23:15 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-05-21 15:51 ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:30 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-21 16:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:51 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 17:44 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:43 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:58 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 21:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 22:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 23:37 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-20 0:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-20 1:06 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-20 1:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20 2:05 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-20 2:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20 15:49 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-20 16:08 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-20 14:04 ` Seth Forshee
2015-05-20 16:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-20 16:46 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 4:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21 5:41 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 6:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21 13:05 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-21 15:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21 15:53 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-26 17:08 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-26 19:15 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-26 19:52 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-26 23:06 ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:03 ` Woodhouse, David
2015-05-21 16:22 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-21 16:31 ` Woodhouse, David
2015-05-21 17:02 ` gregkh
2015-05-21 17:14 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 18:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 18:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 19:32 ` Woodhouse, David
2015-05-21 17:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 14:45 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 22:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-20 20:35 ` Kyle McMartin
2015-05-20 15:08 ` David Howells
2015-05-20 15:47 ` Seth Forshee
2015-05-21 16:23 ` David Howells [this message]
2015-05-20 15:14 ` David Howells
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